Bagged in black silk & housed inside miniature reproduction of 55 gallon drums that the AO was shipped in.
Printed on Arches 88 Silk Screen paper
Edition of 25 with 5 additional artist proofs
11"x9"x4"
63 pages
2015
$1800​​
AGENT ORANGE
An American Legacy in Vietnam
By C. David Thomas
with an introduction by Catherine Karnow
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“The subject of this artist’s book is Agent Orange, the deadly, dioxin-contaminated defoliant used in Vietnam between 1961 and 1971. The Vietnamese people, both military and civilian, young and old have been living, hunting, fishing, and farming this contaminated soil since the 1960s”
– Vamp & Tramp Booksellers’ website, March 30, 2017.
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The images and text are printed on photographic paper, Arches 88 Silk Screen made in France, with archival ink on an Epson Stylus Photo R2880 inkjet printer. All pages are printed on Innova short grain, 200-gram, natural white texture duo paper. The font is Myriad Pro. These pages sit in a handmade wooden black and orange lacquered tray. On top sits a black composite domed lid shaped as a vertical half-barrel with an orange stripe affixed to it printed with the words ‘Agent Orange’. The book is presented in a handmade, drawstring silk bag created by Vietnamese-American women working at the Southeast Asian Coalition in Worcester, MA. The silk was handwoven in Van Village near Hanoi.
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See press release here.
Partial List of Collections:
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Cynthia Spears Collections
Baylor University, Libraries, Special Collections
Columbia University, Butler Library, Rare Books
Lafayette College, Skillman Library, Special Collections
Lasalle University
Miami University, King Library, Special Collections
MIT Libraries
Stanford University, Green Library, American History Collection
Trinity College
UC Irvine Sciences Library, SpeciaL Collections
UC Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Special Collections
University of California Irvine, Langsam Library, Special Collections
University of Colorado Boulder, Norlin Library, Special Collections
University of Connecticut
University of Iowa, Art Library
University of Utah, Marriott Library, Special Collections
University of Washington, Library, Special Collections
